I don't hate Christians. Not at all. An accusation like that is totally unfair. Where do they come up with it? What are they afraid of?

I mean, I certainly don't want to be a friend with any Christians, and there's no way I would let one into my house. Nor would I allow my kids to hang around with Christians, or their children, or anybody who might have shaken hands with a Christian at anytime in the past or said anything nice about them or their stupid beliefs. And I don't see why people should have to hire Christians, or sell or rent houses to them. Why should Christians get special treatment such that the rest of us have to support them in their nauseating Jesus-loving ways? But hey, that doesn't mean I hate Christians or anything. It's just a matter of defending my own values and exercising my free speech, according to the Constitution. Are you trying to take away my Constitutional rights?

But anyway, what I'm talking about isn't the same as hate. As far as I'm concerned, those stupid perverted Christians are free to believe and worship as they please. I just wish they would do it in the privacy of their own homes where other people don't have to see it. Why do these Christians insist on flaunting their disgusting faith in public? It even shows up on TV, and these people with their Christian agendas insist on talking about it to other people all the time, like it's normal or something. Even to children--they're trying to teach "religious tolerance" in the schools, regardless of what I think about it or what I teach my kids. Is that right, I ask you? Give me a break. Why should I have this Christianity thrust in my face all the time? And if you ever try to challenge them on it, all you get is some smirk or whine about "freedom of religion," like that means it's okay for them to parade around their beliefs in front of everybody. Why am I forced to look at that? It makes me want to puke. Where are MY rights, I'd like to know?

Anyway, I'm sure you can see there's no hate in me, not even toward Christians, who it's really understandable people would hate a lot if we weren't such a swell bunch of loving benevolent people. And if you can see any animosity or personal hostility toward Christians in anything I've written here, it just shows YOU're the one who's really got hate in his heart, because I'm just a guy trying to live his decent atheist secular life in the midst of a wicked hateful Christian world that won't leave poor persecuted me alone.

I hope that explains things sufficiently. Thanks for your understanding.

it's the christianity I hate

U know *they* won't get it unless you write 'SARCASM' in big quotes, don't you ? Some of them will probably end up citing you as 'clear evidence' of persecution of Christians on Fray !!!

tiponeill:

it's the christianity I hate

Yeah, I hear you. I've tried telling some of my Christian acquaintances: "Listen, I have nothing against you and I think you're a really nice guy and am happy to be your friend and wish you well. It's just your ignorant backwards anti-intellectual soul-killing socially destructive religious beliefs that I think ought to be outlawed or at least marginalized and quarantined so they can't cause harm to the rest of us." But do they accept this outstretched hand in the spirit of love in which it's offered? No way. Instead, they go and get all twisted about it, like they think I'm against them or something. Talk about touchy!

You need to explain to them that science has found that christianity is a choice - it isn't genetic and they aren't born that way.

They can change and there are plenty of ex-christian groups that can help and support them.

Until then, they should just try to stop flaunting their christianity in our faces and trying to shove it down our throats.

Coelacanth:

I don't hate Christians. Not at all. An accusation like that is totally unfair. Where do they come up with it? What are they afraid of?

I mean, I certainly don't want to be a friend with any Christians, and there's no way I would let one into my house. Nor would I allow my kids to hang around with Christians, or their children, or anybody who might have shaken hands with a Christian at anytime in the past or said anything nice about them or their stupid beliefs. And I don't see why people should have to hire Christians, or sell or rent houses to them. Why should Christians get special treatment such that the rest of us have to support them in their nauseating Jesus-loving ways? But hey, that doesn't mean I hate Christians or anything. It's just a matter of defending my own values and exercising my free speech, according to the Constitution. Are you trying to take away my Constitutional rights?

But anyway, what I'm talking about isn't the same as hate. As far as I'm concerned, those stupid perverted Christians are free to believe and worship as they please. I just wish they would do it in the privacy of their own homes where other people don't have to see it. Why do these Christians insist on flaunting their disgusting faith in public? It even shows up on TV, and these people with their Christian agendas insist on talking about it to other people all the time, like it's normal or something. Even to children--they're trying to teach "religious tolerance" in the schools, regardless of what I think about it or what I teach my kids. Is that right, I ask you? Give me a break. Why should I have this Christianity thrust in my face all the time? And if you ever try to challenge them on it, all you get is some smirk or whine about "freedom of religion," like that means it's okay for them to parade around their beliefs in front of everybody. Why am I forced to look at that? It makes me want to puke. Where are MY rights, I'd like to know?

Anyway, I'm sure you can see there's no hate in me, not even toward Christians, who it's really understandable people would hate a lot if we weren't such a swell bunch of loving benevolent people. And if you can see any animosity or personal hostility toward Christians in anything I've written here, it just shows YOU're the one who's really got hate in his heart, because I'm just a guy trying to live his decent atheist secular life in the midst of a wicked hateful Christian world that won't leave poor persecuted me alone.

I hope that explains things sufficiently. Thanks for your understanding.

Now I understand....LOL !!!

I hope that you don't mind my using your post in a few blogs. I will give you credit for them of course.

Proof of Konark's earlier statement. The preacher is not only believing this to be real but he is going to spam the whole world to show how much of a victim he is. Pitiful really but what are we to expect from a person who spews hatred while claiming that he is the one hated and for no reason at all

Nanotech:

Now I understand....LOL !!!

I hope that you don't mind my using your post in a few blogs. I will give you credit for them of course.

Amazing, simply amazing that you didn't even recognize it for what it was.

I hope you DO use it. Folks with anything more than basic reading and comprehension skills will recognize it as a well written treatise on how certain self-styled christians treat folks they don't agree with...

Ya gotta love that Nano didn't get the joke....or that HE was the butt of it!

LOL

tiponeill:

...and trying to shove it down our throats.

Uh, as it were....

I have always liked lemonaid....LOL.

Hateful atheists don't want Christianity "thrust in their faces."

They want to thrust their own hatefulness and intolerance in the faces of the huge, overwhelming majority of Jews, Muslims, and Christians.

Homosexuality? NO PROBLEM.

Abortion? CALL IT "CHOICE" AND MURDER AWAY.

Crime, stupidity, and malice? SO WHAT. WHO CARES.

When God goes, all is permitted.

Secular liberals are destroying America.

The barbarians are inside the gates already, and tearing down this once magnificent place called America.

Nanotech:

I have always liked lemonaid....LOL.

Sounds suspiciously like you are stating that you intend to post this satirical piece as being a true and honest statement. Correct me if I am wrong, but is that not lying and is it not also the case that the book you worship (and wish to make the law of the land) forbid lying stating that it is a sin? It would appear that preachers (aka charlatans, con men, snake oil salesmen, etc.) do not think that they are bound by that prohibition.

CaliforniaDreamin:

The barbarians are inside the gates already, and tearing down this once magnificent place called America.

I know, it's been a tough 7-1/2 years. But come January 20, the barbarians will be swept from office.

We can hope --- there's still a chance that an erstwhile-civilized-rapidly-tu­rning-Barbarian guy will get into it....